The movie was riffed twice in the B-movie-mocking series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). It first appeared on the show during its first season on Minnesota UHF station KMTA, debuting on November 12, 1988. On August, 6, 1991, it was again featured as the second episode of the third season on cable channel Comedy Central. Since the writing on the show had evolved a great deal since the KTMA days, the writing staff ended up tossing out all the improvised joke from the first episode and re-wrote the entire show. The 1985 "Sandy Frank version" of the film was shown in both episodes.
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